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"There are no risk-free choices, just choices to take different risks," says Paul Offit, MDIn this video, Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses vaccination, myocarditis, and COVID-19 illness in younger age groups. Offit, who will weigh Pfizer's third dose for kids 5 to 11 years old at an upcoming FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting, also examines some of the missteps in communicating public health goals during the pandemic. The following is a transcript of his remarks: When this virus, SARS CoV-2, came into the country, it became...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell Thursday that the leaked draft of a 5-4 majority Supreme Court opinion that would remove so-called abortion Roe v. Wade protections was “dark” and “incredibly dangerous.” Politico published Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s draft Monday evening, which would overrule the prior abortion cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in order to uphold an abortion law in Mississippi.

The Food and Drug Administration said the shot should only be given to adults who cannot receive a different vaccine or specifically request J&J's vaccine. U.S. authorities for months have recommended that Americans starting their COVID-19 vaccinations use the Pfizer or Moderna shots instead. FDA officials said in a statement that they decided to restrict J&J's vaccine after taking another look at data on the risk of life-threatening blood clots within two weeks of vaccination. J&J's vaccine was initially considered an important tool in fighting the pandemic because it required only one shot. But the single-dose option proved less effective...

(CNN) The Michigan State Police has expanded its investigation into whether third parties gained unauthorized access to voting machine data after the 2020 election, and is now examining potential breaches in at least one new county, CNN has learned. In a raid last Friday, state police seized one voting machine tabulator in Irving Township, Barry County Clerk Pamela Palmer told CNN on Thursday. Palmer told CNN that she was not aware of any issues until police notified her of the voting machine seizure. Michigan State Police first opened its investigation into potential voting machine breaches in February after the Secretary...

.@GovLarryHogan @LarryHogan speech to @Reagan_Library ... GOP “won’t win back the White House by nominating Donald Trump or a cheap impersonation of him" ...full video here: https://t.co/af2xrlyxWj pic.twitter.com/yhWBMuGT4r— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) May 5, 2022

[Catholic Caucus] Francis’s Criteria for Appointing or Dismissing Bishops. A SamplingThat of the new archbishop of Paris is the latest of the important appointments made by Pope Francis. The newly appointed Laurent Ulrich, former bishop of Chambéry and then of Lille, is generally classified as a moderate progressive, close to Jorge Mario Bergoglio in his sensitivity to migrants and in the identification of “clericalism” as the true root of sexual abuse.But more than this appointment, it is the way in which the predecessor had to leave office that characterizes the pope’s management style. Michel Aupetit, archbishop of Paris since 2017,...

The owner of a Jeep became embroiled in a legal nightmare after he handed the keys of his vehicle to a Michigan dealership where a mechanic died while working on his car. The family of Jeffrey Hawkins, 42, is suing the Jeep owner, who has not been named, for $15million over the death of the veteran mechanic. Hawkins, a married father-of-four, was killed on March 13, 2020, while changing the Jeep's oil at Rochester Hills Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership in Michigan. A 19-year-old fellow mechanic, who didn't know how to drive a shift stick and did not have a driver's...

The woman tapped to lead the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “Disinformation Governance Board” called critics of Critical Race Theory (CRT) “disinformers” during a conference on disinformation.Disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz said the GOP is made up of “disinformers” who “have seized on” issues like CRT to spread “disinformation” at a speaking event at The City Club of Cleveland in October 2021 titled “Disinformation and Democracy: Civic Discourse in the Digital Age.”“Critical Race Theory has become one of those hot-button issues that the Republicans and other disinformers, who are engaged in disinformation for profit, frankly … have seized on,” Jankowicz said.Jankowicz...

I wanted to give a report on how well the Deep State, Cabal, Powers that Ought Not Be, etc. are doing with their plans for genocide through stealth suicide, at least how these plans are working out in the state where I reside. First, a little refresher: The first booster was available to the immune compromised in August. It became available to those over 65 at the end of September. Just before Thanksgiving, it was authorized for all adults 18 and over and then to older teens a few weeks later. Currently, the 2nd booster can be gotten by those...

NO, ABORTION WON'T RESCUE DEMS IN NOVEMBER. There's a lot of speculation that a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, if that indeed happens, would be a boost for Democrats in this November's midterm elections. There seems no doubt the decision will motivate some part of the Democratic base. But the question is: Who? How many? And how important would they be to the election results?Polling shows that abortion is not at the highest level of voter concerns, even after the unprecedented leak of a draft decision that would end Roe. Politico conducted a rush poll after the leak,...

It's becoming a harried situation for U.S. Supreme Court justices, especially Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the draft that was leaked showing the Court is looking to overturn Roe v. Wade. As Reuters reported, Justice Alito canceled his appearance at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' judicial conference on Thursday. This is just one recent update beyond what Townhall has already reported. People are encouraging threats and violence against the justices, and pro-abortion activists are already committing violence in the streets. Activist groups are offering stipends for people to show up at the homes of justices. Riot fencing has...

Intelligence shared by the U.S. helped Ukraine sink the Russian cruiser Moskva, U.S. officials told NBC News, confirming an American role in perhaps the most embarrassing blow to Vladimir Putin’s troubled invasion of Ukraine.... The attack happened after Ukrainian forces asked the Americans about a ship sailing in the Black Sea south of Odesa, U.S. officials told NBC News. The U.S. identified it as the Moskva, officials said, and helped confirm its location, after which the Ukrainians targeted the ship.... The U.S. role in the sinking has not been previously reported. But NBC News detailed last month how American intelligence...

A left-wing group published its plans for protests outside of the six conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes, calling them “extremist.”The group, going by “Ruth Sent Us,” published what it claims are the addresses of Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts, seemingly in response to the Monday SCOTUS draft opinion leak that signaled the majority of the court may vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.“ANNOUNCING: Walk-by Wednesday, May 11, 2022! At the homes of the six extremist justices, three in Virginia and three in Maryland. If you’d like to join or lead...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with union organizers at the White House on Thursday as the administration looks to boost unionization campaigns. Participants in the meeting, which featured an unscheduled appearance by President Joe Biden, discussed organizers’ efforts to form unions in their workplaces, and how those could prompt workers around the country to mount similar organization campaigns, according to a readout from the White House. Biden thanked them for bolstering organizing momentum that is growing nationally. Among the guests were Chris Smalls, who heads the Amazon Labor Union that won a...

NANTUCKET (CBS) — MIT researchers are unveiling their plan to tackle the growing threat of Lyme disease, and it involves releasing thousands of genetically modified mice on Nantucket. The Boston Globe reports that scientists this month explained to island residents their proposal to release potentially hundreds of thousands of mice that have been engineered to be resistant to the bacteria that causes Lyme. They say that if Lyme were less prevalent among mice, then fewer ticks that bite the rodents would contract the disease. As a result, there would be fewer cases of Lyme disease in humans bitten by ticks....

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki will leave office on May 13, she will be succeeded by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House said in its statement Thursday. "Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but she will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris Administration on behalf of the American people," US President Joe Biden said, according to White House press office. "I want to say thank you to Jen for raising the bar, communicating directly and truthfully to the American people, and keeping her sense of humor...

The Chinese Communist Party’s continued insistence on its “zero-COVID” strategy to tackle local outbreaks isn’t so much about science, but rather the choice of its top leader Xi Jinping, who ties the success of the strategy to his own greatness, according to Jeffrey A. Tucker, president of Texas-based think tank the Brownstone Institute. “Xi Jinping made a profound error in believing that his prowess and the personality cult that surrounds him was capable of taking on the greatest challenge in the history of humanity,” Tucker recently told EpochTV’s “China Insider” program. On Jan. 23, 2020, Xi put Wuhan, a city...

Phil Mickelson suffered a staggering $40 million gambling loss between 2010 and 2014, according to his biographer. Alan Shipnuck, a former golf reporter for Sports Illustrated, has a Mickelson biography entitled, “Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar,” which is coming out later this month. In a book excerpt published on the Fire Pit Collective website, Shipnuck cites documents that were compiled when government auditors conducted a “forensic” analysis of Mickelson’s finances during the time he was embroiled in an insider trading case involving famed professional gambler Billy Walters

HUNDREDS of high profile Donald Trump supporters, popular conservative figures, and investigative reporters gathered at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to view a screening of the shocking 2020 Election documentary, “2,000 Mules.” The film, created by brilliant political commentator Dinesh D’Souza reveals evidence of the greatest crime in American history — the stolen 2020 election. D’Souza follows the coordinated national ballot trafficking conspiracy discovered by True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips. The documentary exposes how political operatives were allegedly paid to drop off hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots at drop boxes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin...

National security memo warns that quantum computing could jeopardize civilian and military communications, and defeat security protocols for most Internet-based financial transactions The U.S. government is barreling ahead with plans to mitigate future threats from quantum computing with a new White House memo directing federal agencies to jumpstart an all-hands-on-deck approach to migrating to quantum-resistant technologies. The security memo, released alongside a plan to promote U.S. leadership in quantum computing, directs specific actions for agencies to take during what is being described as a laborious, multi-year process of migrating vulnerable computer systems to quantum-resistant cryptography. "Research shows that at some...